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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
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Editor's note: This is the sixth edition of Street Smart, The Morning Context’s weekly newsletter on everything that impacts corporate India. Every Thursday, Street Smart will bring you an original, reported or analytical take on issues that have the potential to shake up the business ecosystem. Surendar here. Apologies for the delay in shipping this week’s edition of the newsletter. We wanted to wait just a while and make sense of what was probably the most spectacular part of Mukesh Ambani’s address earlier today at the Reliance Industries Ltd AGM. No, it’s not the induction of Saudi Aramco’s chairman to the board of RIL. Neither is it the JioPhone Next launch that could very well disrupt the smartphone industry. What intrigued me the most is Ambani’s push for green energy. Aviation has also been in the news this week. Jet Airways’s insolvency hearings finally moved a step ahead after the National Company Law Tribunal approved the resolution plan submitted by the Murari Lal Jalan-Kalrock Capital consortium. But it was something else that piqued our interest. Jayshree has picked an important development in …
While the Rs 9,000 crore promoter investment in Q1 brings a measure of reassurance, investors will still have to wait for Jio and retail to work through their challenges.
Reliance Consumer Products is relying on aggressive pricing in the hope that its staples brand will become a household name. But such tactics can go only so far.
Mukesh Ambani wants investors to price Reliance Industries’ IPO-bound telecom arm like a technology business. In reality, Jio’s tech ambitions remain a work in progress.
